125 SPEAKER RESULTS
Dr. Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins
Educator, Writer & Activist; First Woman of Color Elected President of the League of Women Voters
Dan Heath
Bestselling Author, Senior Fellow at Duke University, Entrepreneur
Michael Lombardi
General Manager of University of North Carolina Football; Super Bowl Winning Former NFL Executive; Author of "Gridiron Genius" & "Football Done Right"
Stan Phelps
IBM Futurist, Bestselling Author of the Goldfish Series, Customer Experience & Artificial Intelligence Thought Leader
Horacio Sanchez
Clinician, Author, Education Advocate, and Mental Health Authority; President & CEO at Resiliency Inc.
Jess Ekstrom
Social Entrepreneur; Growth Mindset & Women's Empowerment Speaker; Chief Creative Officer at Mic Drop Workshop; Founder of Headbands of Hope; Bestselling Author of "Chasing the Bright Side" & "Create Your Bright Ideas"
Phil Ford
Retired NBA Player & Rookie of the Year; ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year & ACC Athlete of the Year; Olympic Gold Medalist; Fundraiser & Community Liaison with the UNC Educational Foundation
MrBeast
YouTube Sensation, Entrepreneur & Philanthropist; Host of Prime Video's "Beast Games" & Founder of MrBeast Burger, Feastables & Lunchly
Jason Brown
Former NFL Player; Founder of First Fruits Farm; Farmer & Philanthropist; Founder of Wisdom For Life Ministries
Shantell Thomas
Technology & Diversity Marketer; Mentor; Storyteller; Inclusion & Culture Practitioner
Vivian Howard
Chef, TV Host & Restaurateur Known for Chef & the Farmer & Lenoir; Host of PBS' "A Chef's Life" & "Somewhere South"; Author, "Deep Run Roots"
Kristin Frade
Accountability Coach, Corporate Speaker & Trainer; Executive Coach with Novus Global
Leigh-Kathryn Bonner
Social Impact Entrepreneur; Leadership Speaker; Founder & CEO of Bee Downtown
Lauren Winner
Duke Divinity School Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality
Mark Anthony Neal
Author, Cultural Critic & James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University
Fay Cobb Payton, PhD
Author of "Leveraging Intersectionality: Seeing and Not Seeing"; Special Advisor on Inclusive Innovation and Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science at Rutgers University
Tressie McMillan Cottom, Ph.D.
Professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; NY Times Opinion Columnist; 2020 MacArthur Fellow
Shree Bose
Grand Prize Winner of the First Google Global Science Fair, Cancer Researcher & Resident Physician, University of Chicago; Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Piper Learning Inc.
Larry Weaver
Clean Comedian, Emcee & Virtual Presenter
Sharon Delaney McCloud
Emmy Award-Winning Journalist, Broadcaster & Emcee; Resilience Expert; Breast Cancer Survivor
